CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Built up and sold a community newspaper in Naples and was named anchor on a local newscast in the same year.

ELECTION 2012 HIGHLIGHT: “Celebrating with my family.”

KEY ISSUES: “Key issues are jobs, jobs, jobs. For the next few years, every member of Congress must have a sharp focus on the economy. Increasing revenue is not enough. We have to cut spending to ensure a vibrant, secure economy and a strong dollar. We also need to provide a certain, stable and simplified Tax Code for businesses to thrive.”

COMMITTEES: Transportation and Infrastructure; Foreign Affairs

WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU: “I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and for the people of Southwest Florida.”

FUN FACT: “Played guitar in a rock band, and I am a big fan of old-school hip-hop.” — Aleesa Mann

ELECTION 2012 HIGHLIGHT: “The evening that we arrived in Washington on the day before the first week of orientation started; walking across the Capitol grounds and looking up at that beautiful dome and recognizing the wonderful privilege and awesome responsibility that we have earned and that we have taken on.”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Providing legal services to clients in the private sector; director, Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives at the Department of Homeland Security

ELECTION 2012 HIGHLIGHT: Spoke at the 2012 Republican National Convention, the first party convention he ever attended.

KEY ISSUES: Lowering the corporate tax rate, rolling back regulations and repealing the ACA. Wants to end “overregulation” in the energy sector, pledging to fight EPA and potential cap-and-trade legislation, and instead pushing for drilling in the ANWR and Outer Continental Shelf.

COMMITTEES: Judiciary; Homeland Security

WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOU: “I am a family man, and I’m coming to Congress to work toward practical, limited government solutions to the many pressing problems we face so that we can leave all our loved ones a better future.”

FUN FACT: Has six children — one for every county in his district. — Jonathan Topaz